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Extinct genus of leaf beetles

Aoriopsis
Temporal range: Ypresian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: †Aoriopsis
Moseyko, Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2010
Species: †A. eocenicus
Binomial name
†Aoriopsis eocenicus
Moseyko, Kirejtshuk & Nel, 2010

Aoriopsis is an extinct genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Aoriopsis eocenicus, and is known only from lowermost Eocene amber collected from Le Quesnoy, Oise Department, France.

The species is known only from one fossil, the holotype, specimen number "PA 2437". It is an almost complete female beetle included in a small piece of amber. The specimen is currently deposited at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, France. Aoriopsis was first studied by Alexey G. Moseyko and Alexander G. Kirejtshuk of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Andre Nel of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Their type description of the genus was published in the journal Annales de la Société Entomologique de France in 2010.

The generic name, Aoriopsis, is a combination of the generic name Aoria and the Greek root opsis (appearance, countenance, face). The specific name, eocenicus, is derived from "Eocene", the geological epoch the genus lived in.

References

  1. ^ Moseyko, Alexey G.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G.; Nel, Andre (2010). "New genera and new species of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Chrysomelidae) from Lowermost Eocene French amber". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. Nouvelle Série. 46 (1–2): 116–123. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697645.
Taxon identifiers
Aoriopsis
Aoriopsis eocenicus


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